Korg wavestation ex review5/2/2023 The new EX version of the Wavestation has addressed the piano/drum 'problem', however. Perhaps heavier marketing from Korg would have paid dividends, or perhaps it was always intended to be a 'niche' product, aimed at the relatively small number of synth users who actually get down to serious programming. Vector Sequencing facilitates dynamic mixing of the oscillators in a patch: you select envelope points, and use a front panel joystick to set the balance between two or four oscillators at each point.īut it seems this is not what the public wants: if it doesn't have drum sounds and a decent piano, then most people don't want to know about it. Wave Sequencing allows oscillators to crossfade or simply cut between any of the waves in ROM producing, respectively, crossfades between timbres, or rhythmic effects. Hardly anything special so far, but it's Wave Sequencing and Vector Sequencing that make the Wavestation so interesting. (In Multi mode, for use with a sequencer, you can address 16 Performances independently, rather than 16 Patches as you might expect.) There's a powerful digital effects section which can apply two independent effects, and each layer in a Patch can be filtered and modulated, processed by an amplitude envelope etc. I'll leave Kendall Wrightson to re-cap on the details of all that in his forthcoming Wavestation A/D review, but briefly sampled waves can be combined one, two or four at a time into Patches, which in turn can be grouped eight at a time into Performances. Why? And are the new Wavestation EX keyboard or Wavestation A/D rack expander sufficiently different to attract more interest? Beneath its deceptively minimal front panel the Wavestation is a phenomenally powerful, useful and different instrument. The Wavestation, however, being merely an extraordinarily powerful synth, thoroughly well designed, and with a sound to kill for, has remained a minority interest since its introduction. Korg's M1 was deservedly the most successful workstation to date for its power and value for money. Those who did buy one, however, have acquired an instrument that is surely a modern classic. As Julian Colbeck observes in his survey of the synth market this month (see page 32), the Korg WS1 Wavestation was a missed opportunity for many people, passed over perhaps in favour of more familiar instruments.
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